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Turtle Species:

Loggerhead

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Loggerheads are named for their large heads, with jaws powerful enough to crush an adult queen conch. Like most sea turtles, loggerheads are famed for their vast migrations. As a species that may travel thousands of miles across ocean basins, loggerheads are in grave danger due to worldwide habitat loss and incidental capture by fishermen.

A large juvenile loggerhead named Adelita was the first sea turtle to be tracked by satellite across an entire ocean basin.

Her approximately 6500 mile journey from feeding areas off Baja California, Mexico, to coastal areas off her natal Japan corroborated the link across the North Pacific Ocean established by genetic studies.

In the North Atlantic Ocean, post-hatchlings and small juveniles associate with mats of Sargassum for years before recruiting back to nearshore areas off the eastern coast of the United States as large immatures